WS23 – TD 02 – Sequencing Shows and Installations

Description

Recording of Oktober 25th 2023 in English Language
Recordings are available for one year after purchase.

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Sequencing Shows and Installations

We all love TouchDesigner for the creative mess it allows us to create. Everything connects to everything and it’s easy to experiment in unforeseen ways. However, for every TouchDesigner user comes the moment where they want to tame the creative chaos and get ready to perform a show on a big stage, and suddenly one existing patch is not enough. Or you have to make sure that this beautiful, yet fragile interactive masterpiece of yours is working every day of the week from seven in the morning until eight at night.

Stefan Kraus will guide you through this course and explain how to setup up projects in an optimised and reliable way. With a few simple tricks, you avoid frame drops, crashes, jittery video playback and many other traps that can make show creation in a real time environment challenging.

Sequence live or automated shows and installations flawlessly and orchestrate lights, projections and sound without hick ups and shameful moments of reboot. Get a rundown on best practices and working TouchDesigner example patches for every step along the way. Get your art ready for the big stage or the daily grind of the museum in now time and without the pain.

About the Instructor

Stefan Kraus, media artist and educator, is co-founder of The NODE Institute, the projection mapping festival, Genius Loci Weimar, and the media art studio, MXZEHN. Trained as an architect, Stefan explores the augmentation of physical structures using interactive and generative media and the narrative potential of abstract imagery. He holds a special interest in the art of live visual improvisation and creates augmented scenographies for theater, dance and music performances. After teaching Interaction Design at Bauhaus-University Weimar for over two decades, Stefan now enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience with the creative coding community. His studio produces interactive installations, live media performances and augmented reality applications for commercial clients, festivals, institutions and exhibitions.

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